The North is a very special but essential place in the empire.
Just as the Seven Kingdoms are incomplete if they lose Dorne, if they lose the North, they lose half of their land.
The Northern Territory occupies half of the area of the Seven Kingdoms. It is vast but sparsely populated.
And if there is a special existence in the North, it must be the Great Wall of Despair.
The Great Wall stretches from the Frostfang Mountains in the west to Seal Bay in the east, stretching for three hundred miles and reaching a height of seven hundred feet.
And now there are tens of thousands of Imperial Legion soldiers stationed here, keeping watch on the Great Wall day and night, alert to enemies that may appear from the north of the Great Wall.
The name of this Imperial Legion was called the Night's Watch Legion.
The Night's Watch is an army dedicated to guarding the Great Wall. The Legion was established during the Age of Heroes after the end of the first Long Night when the White Walker invasion was repulsed.
They have been established for more than eight thousand years, and have experienced the fall of the kingdom of the First Men, and the subsequent invasion and conquest wars of the Andals.
The purpose of their establishment is to prevent the return of the White Walkers.
People have suffered a lot in that long night that lasted for a century, and they don't want their descendants to repeat the same mistakes.
Because no one is sure whether the White Walkers will return in a certain year after being defeated?
Although now throughout the long history of mankind, the Long Night has only appeared three times.
The first time was that long night that lasted for a century.
The second time was during the reign of the Night King. It only affected a small area from the north of the Great Wall to Winterfell. The scope of influence was too small, so it was not included in the extensive records.
Therefore, the third long night of mankind happened at the turn of the century in Yin Geng's 300th century. It lasted for one or two years. The whole world faced a huge crisis, so all forces were united to deal with it.
In academic circles, the most recent long night that occurred three hundred years ago is sometimes called the "second long night in history."
Because his influence was very wide, just like the first Long Night, it was not only spread in local areas, but was recorded in every place around the world at the same time.
The reason why the scale of the Night Watch is so huge now is even greater than when the Night Watch Legion was first established at the end of the first long night.
It stems from people's fear of the long night and the White Walkers.
The price paid for that war was too heavy.
Hunger, despair, pain, no one knows whether the White Walkers will come back, so even for nearly a thousand years, the size of the Night's Watch must be maintained at a very high level.
The top management of the empire, the three queens, the Royal Council, the northern nobles who are most directly facing the cold, etc. all attach great importance to this. Now no one will put the Long Night and the White Walkers on the spot. Horror stories and jokes are all accepted by people.
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And it is precisely because of this that the title of the eldest princess of the empire, Diana Targaryen, as the guardian of the Great Wall, is particularly special and important.
She is the guardian of the Great Wall, and she captures everything related to the Great Wall, including the Night's Watch, which has a total number of more than 50,000 people.
And because the Night's Watch Legion is the only super-large-scale legion stationed in the North, and the Stark family, which has ruled the North for generations, only Her Royal Highness the Princess follows suit.
Therefore, in fact, the entire Northern Territory is under the control of Princess Diana, and this is where she speaks.
Even in this land, the edicts from the imperial court in Junlin are not as effective as the words of Her Royal Highness the Princess.
After many years of management, Diana Targaryen is now the uncrowned 'Queen in the North'.
It is for this reason that Diana has such a high degree of control over the North that Bessie strongly advocates turning to the eldest princess for help. The eldest princess's willingness to help is the only way to overthrow the eldest prince's rule.
That's why Tyrion traveled all the way to the north as Yinmon Targaryen's envoy.
However, what makes people sigh is that the emperor's adviser "little devil" Tyrion Lannister, who has worked hard for the empire all his life, went on a mission on behalf of the second prince Yin Meng shortly after his fiftieth birthday.
There was an attack on the way to the north.
This important minister of the Royal Council was tortured and interrogated. Although he was rescued, it was too late. Tyrion did not survive the disaster and breathed his last on the ship.
The Milaham sailed to King's Harbor in the Iron Islands, because Tyrion died on the way and there was no way to preserve the body. Coupled with the humidity and weather at sea, the body quickly rotted and smelled, and the smell was nauseating.
Therefore, everyone on the ship reluctantly made a unanimous decision to cremate Tyrion Lannister on the Iron Islands.
Then he put his ashes in a jar and took his ashes to the north to complete his final mission.
Because Tyrion was still holding his son's hand when he took his last breath, begging them not to waste all their efforts, but to complete the mission of His Royal Highness the Second Prince and convince the eldest princess to send troops to help overthrow the evil rule of the eldest prince Horos.
Standing on the huge city wall on the endless plain, here is a palace in the clouds.
After Diana Targaryen settled on the Wall all year round, she dispatched a group of skilled craftsmen from King's Landing to the end of the world, where they built a palace in the clouds on the top of the Wall, called Dragon Sky Palace.
This palace fully imitated the design of the Targaryen family palace on Dragonstone. The tower was built in the shape of a dragon. A giant dragon hovered on the city wall, and the dragon's head roared toward the north.
Whenever a snowstorm comes, the wind howls from the top of the Great Wall, and the biting cold wind passes through Longxiao Palace's well-designed city wall and repeatedly oscillates, emitting a rumbling echo similar to the roar of a dragon, shocking the outside world.
Enemies may appear from the north.
This effect also imitates the design of the Stone Drum Tower on Dragonstone, which rumbles when a storm approaches.
And now in this palace in the clouds, Tyrion's illegitimate son Damon Flowers is holding his father's urn in his arms and telling all this in tears, making everyone present couldn't help but sigh.
This poor child had just learned his identity, but he watched his biological father die in front of his eyes. This is indeed one of the saddest things in the world.
But even more tragic was the death of Tyrion Lannister.
This important minister of the Imperial Council had served His Majesty the Emperor and made outstanding contributions, but he never expected that something like this would happen in his later years.